Picket guide and support



(No Model.)

J. C. HAAG:e

PIGKET GUIDE AND SUPPORT. No. 356,637. Patented Jan. Z5, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT f, EEicE,

JOHN C. HAAG, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN.

PICKET GUIDE AND ISUPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NaI-556,637, dated January 25, 1887.

Application tiled September 30, 1836. Serial No. 215,012. (No model.)

To all whom z5 may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. HAAG, of Lani sing, in the county of Ingham and State of nsefnl improvements in a picket guide and supportv to he used. in the construction of that type of fences known as Lwre-picket fences, and the invention consists in the peculiar cornbinations and the novel construction and arrangement and adaptation of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l is a front elevation of my improved fence as shown in process of construction. Fig. 2 is a reverse elevation of a section of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on aline with the tie.

'In the accompanying drawings, A represents two posts set firmly in the ground, between which are stretched two. or more single strands of wire, B, at proper distances apart, such Wires being preferably secured to the front feces of the posts, as shown. A bar, C,

with its upper edge orside cambered or curved, as shown, to provide for the Weight of the pickets, which tend to spring the same down` ward, is now hung, by means of suitable snpports, b, upon either thenpper or lower of the Wires B, as may ne preferred, and between the posts A. The pickets D are now secured to the front faces of the wire strands in the following manner, successively, the bottom of the pickets resting upon the top of the bar C, which, being removed when the pickets in apanel have all been secured, the top of the 4o pickets will loe found to be on a. level. The picket is placed against the Wire strands and a piece of Wire, a, is wrapped or twisted around the wire strand and then passed around three sides of the picket and its other end wrapped or twisted around the wire strand, thereby binding the picket to the Wire strands. The more tightly this binding-wire is drawn around the picket the more firmly the latter will be held in position.

Mechanisms may be employed to accomplish this result, and these. mechanisms may he of various kinds, although I prefer such as is shown in my application for a patent bearing even date herewith.

"What I claim as my invent-ion is- 1. Thepioket-gnide and supporting-har C, provided with means for detachably suspending the same, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The bar C, curved upon its upper edge, and provided with hooked rods for suspending the same when desired, as set forth.

JOHN C. HA AG.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, CHARLES J. HUNT. 

